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red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 22m

GORDON: Storm Marriott tramples Ben Day to death within 24 hours of arriving at his stable.
WARREN: Oh.
GORDON: After chewing his arm off when he reportedly refused to give her a second sugar cube.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 57m

WARREN: G…Gordon's down here?
AUBREY: He's just next door. Always has been.
WARREN: Can I… Can I see him?
AUBREY: Of course you can see him.

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red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 1h

CLIVE: No, look. Fine, I’ll just… look. I'll tell Baz and Cockbot I can't play Fortnite today.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 2h

WARREN: And hey, I've listened to your tapes, you've read my file, we know all this stuff about each other, it's a bit like...
AUBREY: Like we're friends.
WARREN: I was going to say massively invading each other's privacy.

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red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 2h

WARREN: It's because when I get in that pod I go nowhere. I think of nothing. I simply am not. And every time I go in I have that sliver of hope that if I do come out, the world might be a different place, and I might be a different person.,

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 3h

PAMELA: We're gonna build ships together! Great big ships!
CLIVE: That's... that's... Pretty Woman!
PAMELA: Pretty fucking Woman!

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 3h

BRYONY: Clive wants his name, face and penis attached to the next great breakthrough in tech. He wants all the power and glory that Kontinue would provide, because he is a small man with a small mind. He's the kind of man who orders a woman's food for her. What more must be said.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 3h

AUBREY: Hester. Can you just...do that thing where you put your hands on my shoulders and smell my hair please. Without the judgement.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 4h

WAFFLES DOES BUGGER ALL.

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red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 4h

GORDON: Hey! I've spent the last few weeks scared out of my mind. For both of us.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 5h

WARREN: I'm done, do you want to storm off or shall I?
GORDON: You can go.
WARREN: You don't like being down here on your own. You go.
GORDON: Okay.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 6h

GORDON: (CLOSE) You swear?
WARREN: (CLOSE) I swear.
GORDON: (CLOSE) You swear.
WARREN: (CLOSE) Could you take your hand off my knee?

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 6h

PAMELA: What is this meeting about? Oh, tell me it's not the Aloha Eternity.
CLIVE: It's the Aloha Eternity.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 7h

CLIVE: You use it on convicts, and you've made it dirty tech, the big money will go nowhere near it. You don't want to read that Billy Bugnuts who murdered his wife with a meat tenderiser is getting 10 years in hypersleep.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 7h

GORDON: He was eaten by pigs?
WARREN: Yeah, but very, very muscular pigs.
GORDON: Pigs eat people anyway, don't they?
WARREN: Do they?
GORDON: I'm just saying it's not quite the wild sci-fi death you're making it out to be.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 8h

CLIVE: You know what the biggest stress of my life is? Chlamydia. The sexual health nurses are the busiest people on the ship.
REBECCA: Jesus wept.
CLIVE: Their names are Chloe and Lydia as well, you couldn't make it up.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 8h

CLIVE: No, look. Fine, I’ll just… look. I'll tell Baz and Cockbot I can't play Fortnite today.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 9h

HESTER: You are a bloody balloon.
AUBREY: Then thank goodness I'm tied to you.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 10h

PAMELA: I thought we had a reservation for another liquid lunch, not a meeting with the directors of Overhead Industries!
CLIVE: It'll be fine. Like I said you're just back up. Look pretty and agree with me.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 10h

AUBREY: Hester. Please. I've been awake for 10 minutes.
HESTER: Yes sir. Sorry sir.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 11h

WARREN: I'm sorry I said those things about you when we were in the tunnel. If it wasn't for you and your interest in all of this, I'd be here on my own. And I don't know how I'd manage that.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 11h

BRYONY: Your mind was as riddled as the shitty genepool you were spawned from. We only came back to you out of sheer desperation.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 12h

GORDON CLEARS HIS THROAT.
GORDON: You Can't Freeze A Soul: My Journey into the Cryonic Void. A Memoir, by Gordon Sergio Porlock. Read by the author.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 12h

CLIVE: Okay so like, do you need me to study anything, like… do I have to know anything before...
PAMELA: What do you want to know?
CLIVE: I don't know like, the stewardess always has important information before a flight.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 13h

AUBREY: I know it's only been 8 days and I've had no trouble on my own, it's just...good to have someone to talk to. Soon this place will have people everywhere and I'll probably miss the peace and quiet.

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